"Help!" Mikey pounded the door with his fist, a thunderous drum echoing throughout the cell.
"Mikey, no one is going to help us!" Raph yelled over the panic screams from the mutant turtle.
"It's worth a try!" Mikey stopped momentarily to say. "He has a point," Delilah shrugged. Brandie stood and started pacing, her eyebrows furrowed in thought. Then, a light bulb went off in her head.
"Eve, can't you pock any lock?" Evangeline looked up wearily. "Yeah, with a key. Not one with a password."
"You're so conceited! Can't you try; the world is at stake, here!" Mikey screamed. Eve sighed as the Turtles rolled their eyes at Mikey's overdramatic flare. Eve stood up and walked over to the keypad. She stared at it for minutes.
"It has flipping letters," she mumbled as Donny walked over to watch her. He paid attention to the random codes she keyed in. Then, she scared them all by punching the pad out of the wall. Donny jumped back.
"Whoa, calm down Evie," Brandie rested a hand on her shoulder. Evangeline ignored the comment and pulled a sai from Raph's shell and cut right through an evergreen and ocean blue wire. The door clicked and swung open automatically. Donnie, Raph, Mikey, Leo, and Delilah gaped with awe.
"It's about time!" Brandie exclaimed as she stormed from the cell. Everyone watched her, wondering why she acted mad instead of shocked like they all were.
"Whaa—"
"She knows me from school," Eve shrugged and walked out. After a few minutes, Delilah and Mikey ran after them, the others walking robotic like behind them, still struck with shock.
"How did you know which wires to cut?" Donnie asked Eve in true wonder. Eve looked back with a heart-wrenching smirk directed at Donnie, but it affected Raph harder than anything. He had never felt so…curious.
Brandie walked ahead of them all, independently. Leo frowned as she reached up and tighten her elastic around her hair. He jogged up next to her.
"Hey," he said awkwardly. Brandie smiled at him, his heart leaping in his chest when she looked down, her cheeks engulfed with flames. She replied with a soft, "Hi." They pushed the door open, crisp autumn air burned at their throats as they sucked in deep breaths.
"We, uhh, live in the sewers," he admitted with a stutter. Brandie shrugged nonchalantly. They all looked fine with the concept.
"Then take us there, turtle dudes," Delilah spoke. So the turtles led them to a certain pothole and through the sewer pipes right to the entrance of 'home sweet home'. The turtles jumped over the metal bars, the girls swinging their legs over. When Brandie walked forward, a girl with bright red hair jumped on top of her. Brandie shoved her off with her leg, holding her fists up as Donnie broke them up.
"April, meet Brandie, Delilah, and Evangeline," April relaxed, Brandie tensed. Her restricted muscles sore form lack of action, her fingers itching for a fight.
"Welcome to our home," a deep, wise voice came from their right. The girls looked over to find a large rat, standing on rat feet in a Japanese robe. He had his rat fingers clasped together in front of him.
"And this is Master Splinter," Donnie introduced. Eve nodded, Delilah smiled.
"Nice to meet you," Brandie spoke. He nodded at them and then looked at the turtles with a furry eyebrow raised suspiciously.
"May I speak with you?" he questioned, but his tone resembled a command. They nodded and smiled shyly at the girls before passing and heading into a room where Splinter talked to them quietly.
"Sorry for attacking you," April spoke for the first time. Brandie wished she had done more, though, wishing to stretch her stiff limbs.
"It's alright, in fact, I'm sure we could all refresh our battle skills, if you and the turtles don't mind," Evangeline asked as the turtles came back into the room.
"You know ninjutsu?" Splinter asked. The girls nodded.
"Then come, warriors, we will help you refresh your memory," he smiled, his whiskers rising with his lips.
Brandie clenched her fist, ready to warm up.